Franz Peter Adams
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| Born | Franz Peter Anton Ernst Adams 17th February 1800 Springiersbach |
| Died | 21th August 1868 Koblenz |
| Nationality | German |
| Spouse(s) | Elisabeth Lenné |
| Children | Franz Adams der Jüngere |
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Franz Peter Adams (also known as: Franz Adams the Elder) (17 February 1800 in Springiersbach; † 21 August 1868 in Koblenz) was a German lawyer and a member of the Vorparlament and the Frankfurt Parliament of 1848.
Biography
Franz Peter Anton Ernst Adams was born in Springiersbach near Trier as the son of the notary Johannes Adams and Bernadina Adams (née Mittweg).[1] In 1818, he began studying law at the universities Bonn and Heidelberg. In Bonn in 1818 he belonged to the Old Bonner Burschenschaft / Lesegesellschaft (Reading Society).[2] In 1826 he married in Koblenz Elisabeth Lenné, sister of the famous landscape gardener and Director General of the Royal Prussian Gardens Peter Joseph Lenné, with whom he had seven children. When he began working as a lawyer in 1826, he founded a law firm in Koblenz, which was continued by his second son Franz Adams the Younger (Franz Adams the Younger, 1828-1891) and still exists there today under a different name.[3] From 1831 until his death in 1868 he was a lawyer in Koblenz, from 1834 Council of Justice.[4]
In addition to his work as a lawyer in Koblenz, he was politically active in the Koblenz municipal council.[5] During the revolution of 1848 he was a member of the preliminary parliament and the national assembly, to which he belonged from May 18, 1848 to October 9, 1848. There he represented constituency XIII of the Rhine Province (election place Koblenz). He belonged to the Casino faction and was a member of the committees for the priority of petitions and motions and for the assessment of the elections in Thiengen and Konstanz His constituency successor was Jacob Philipp Caspers .[4]
His son Franz Adams the Younger surpassed him in terms of honorary posts and reputation.[6] His fourth son Clemens Joseph Adams (1831–1876) became the first mayor of the city of Honnef (today Bad Honnef).
References
- ↑ https://rpb.lbz-rlp.de/cgi-bin/wwwalleg/srchrnam.pl?db=rnam&recnums=0006727
- ↑ Helge Dvorak: Biographisches Lexikon der Deutschen Burschenschaft Volume I: Politicians. Part 1: A-E. Heidelberg 1996, ISBN 3-8253-0339-X, p. 4.
- ↑ Erich Klinge:Hundertsiebzig Jahre Anwaltskanzlei, Zur Geschichte einer Koblenzer Anwaltssozietät 1826-1996(In German)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Wilhelm Weege, Heinrich Best (1998). Biographisches Handbuch der Abgeordneten der Frankfurter Nationalversammlung 1848/49 (in German). Düsseldorf. p. 256.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ↑ Koelges, Michael (1998). Die Revolution von 1848/49 in Koblenz (in German). p. 2.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20101230154405/http://www.katholischer-leseverein-koblenz.de/koblenzerkoepfe.htm
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